Ruth Robertson joined the King's Fund in October 2006. Her current work focuses on ways to promote behaviour change among health practitioners, patients and healthy people.

Ruth previously worked as an analyst at the Healthcare Commission, working on inspections of the independent sector and the organisation's annual report on the state of health care. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham and has just completed an Msc in Social Policy and Planning at the London School of Economics.